1) Is this kind of challenge and the resulting armchair mapping of interest?2) If so, what Australian retail brand(s) would you include (banks, supermarkets, fast food, etc) in later challenges?3) Are there any big negatives to this people can think of?

The main motivation I have is for when mid to large sized chains go out of business, get bought or renamed - a single Brand key makes it a lot easier to find things for later survey/cleanup/etc.

Re: Maproullette challenge for feedback - Australian Brands without Wikidata

Hi Daniel,

Great idea however I think it might be better in smaller ‘state’ chunks. I would have no worries doing all those in Tasmania (as I travel around a lot and probably know most of them) but would be reluctant to do mainland locations without any personal knowledge.

Banks would be another good one given how they seem to be closing smaller branches around the place – again at a state level.

1) Is this kind of challenge and the resulting armchair mapping of interest?2) If so, what Australian retail brand(s) would you include (banks, supermarkets, fast food, etc) in later challenges?3) Are there any big negatives to this people can think of?

The main motivation I have is for when mid to large sized chains go out of business, get bought or renamed - a single Brand key makes it a lot easier to find things for later survey/cleanup/etc.

1) Is this kind of challenge and the resulting armchair mapping of interest?2) If so, what Australian retail brand(s) would you include (banks, supermarkets, fast food, etc) in later challenges?3) Are there any big negatives to this people can think of?

The main motivation I have is for when mid to large sized chains go out of business, get bought or renamed - a single Brand key makes it a lot easier to find things for later survey/cleanup/etc.

Re: Maproullette challenge for feedback - Australian Brands without Wikidata

I think doing this via MapRoulette challanges is a good way to go, and I like that this can then be split up so only people with local knowledge are editing as opposed to doing it without local knowledge.

I think care should be taken to not blindly "upgrade" all the tags, there could be subtleties particularly around cuisine tags, or name tags that should be carefully considered. Even then some stores with the same brand might have a different shop tag for different outlets.

1) Is this kind of challenge and the resulting armchair mapping of interest?2) If so, what Australian retail brand(s) would you include (banks, supermarkets, fast food, etc) in later challenges?3) Are there any big negatives to this people can think of?

The main motivation I have is for when mid to large sized chains go out of business, get bought or renamed - a single Brand key makes it a lot easier to find things for later survey/cleanup/etc.

Its odd; because some things you clearly would label like that, but they often don't put up signage to that effect; but they'd refer to specific locations like that on a "find a branch" or "find a store" type page.

Re: Maproullette challenge for feedback - Australian Brands without Wikidata

PS – where it’s a building it wants to update each node of the building – not sure if this is a roulette issue or something else

That is annoying, I think its a maproullette issue - the queries look for named nodes, named ways; when it generates tasks; it seems to be adding the corner nodes too.

I might suggest people skip these; and there is https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/732 available to add shortcut keys; though I can't find a more specific bug report around the test generation. Might experiment and try to get good reproduce steps.

Re: Maproullette challenge for feedback - Australian Brands without Wikidata

I'm a member of the OSMF Data Working Group and we have been alerted to
this thread. Please let me say a few words of caution to avoid problems
down the line:

The "upgrade tags" functionality in the ID editor is highly
controversial in the community. The rules about "upgrading" are not the
result of a solid community process and many are contested.

While an individual mapper has the freedom to choose any tags they want,
they must also take full responsibility for what they are doing; the
editor does not take the responsibility away from them.

It is possible for someone without any knowledge of Australia to
participate in your challenge, log in, click the "upgrade tags" button
without ever seeing *what* tags are being upgraded (or understanding
why), and uploading the change.

This kind of edit would clearly fall under the rules for mechanical
edits and would have to be discussed in the community beforehand (i.e.
the Australian community would have to agree what mechanical changes
they want to apply to which objects). If anyone were to complain to DWG
about such an edit, DWG would likely have to revert all edits made as
part of this challenge for failing to follow the mechanical editing
guidelines; while it is *possible* to actually inspect every "upgrade"
iD is suggesting, it is equally possible to just hit the "upgrade"
button without caring at all and you can't see from the outside how much
diligence has been applied in committing a changeset.

There have already been instances where, even outside of a MapRoulette
challenge, innocent newbie editors who just clicked "upgrade" and
thought they were doing good, have been grilled by the community later
("why exactly did you change this tag on this object to this value"),
leading to a bad experience on all sides involved.

Therefore, please exercise utmost care when setting up any MapRoulette
challenges or anything that incites user to mass-"upgrade" tags. It is
entirely possible that once the community has a closer look at it, the
tags will have to be "downgraded" again because whatever iD thought to
be a good idea, is not actually a good idea in Australia.

Do not blindly assume that what the iD editor suggests as an "upgrade"
is actually an improvement.

We are not saying that what you are doing is wrong, but it is definitely
dangerous and should only be done with utmost care.

Re: Maproullette challenge for feedback - Australian Brands without Wikidata

It is possible for someone without any knowledge of Australia to
participate in your challenge, log in, click the "upgrade tags" button
without ever seeing *what* tags are being upgraded (or understanding
why), and uploading the change.

This kind of edit would clearly fall under the rules for mechanical
edits and would have to be discussed in the community beforehand (i.e.
the Australian community would have to agree what mechanical changes
they want to apply to which objects). If anyone were to complain to DWG
about such an edit, DWG would likely have to revert all edits made as
part of this challenge for failing to follow the mechanical editing
guidelines; while it is *possible* to actually inspect every "upgrade"
iD is suggesting, it is equally possible to just hit the "upgrade"
button without caring at all and you can't see from the outside how much
diligence has been applied in committing a changeset.

Indeed I've noticed that some of the "upgrades" iD suggests are wrong, and other "upgrades" deleted correct data someone carefully surveyed. So I agree we should be careful in any MapRoulette challange that the instructions indicate you should only upgrade what you have local knowledge of and be sure to review the changes, instead of doing it blind to the actual changes being done.

There have already been instances where, even outside of a MapRoulette
challenge, innocent newbie editors who just clicked "upgrade" and
thought they were doing good, have been grilled by the community later
("why exactly did you change this tag on this object to this value"),
leading to a bad experience on all sides involved.

Therefore, please exercise utmost care when setting up any MapRoulette
challenges or anything that incites user to mass-"upgrade" tags. It is
entirely possible that once the community has a closer look at it, the
tags will have to be "downgraded" again because whatever iD thought to
be a good idea, is not actually a good idea in Australia.

Do not blindly assume that what the iD editor suggests as an "upgrade"
is actually an improvement.

We are not saying that what you are doing is wrong, but it is definitely
dangerous and should only be done with utmost care.

100% agreed on all your points. Thanks for taking the time to share this message.